I stopped using it a long time ago. I don't stream and such and I use afterburner for all my overlay info but most importantly, every so often, it logs me out and wants me to log back in and I don't remember my username/password because the account I used was my throw away highschool account and I can't be bothered to create a new one or go through the hassle of password reset. Geforce experience's login requirement is the dumbest thing Nvidia has done.

I only use GFE for taking screenshots on the fly or few second recordings, but never streaming. I've not really experienced the auto logout thing you've had, but I do hate whenever I go for a clean install via DDU, that I have to relog back into GFE and half the time I forget the pass and nvidia is a dick for password resets (at least for me, half the time the code doesn't even show up in my inbox). 

Only real reason why I still use it, is because I cba downloading and fiddling about with reshade, that and I currently can't use MSI ab with my GPU fans not complying with it, which makes using RST overlay also useless for me (until I get the fans sorted, then I can go back to using both). 

I just wish nvidia would overhaul their "auto settings" side of GFE, because for me it's currently and utterly useless, as it thinks I can handle everything on ultra, and even at 4k, which means it's only ever looking at the VRAM/clock speed, not the rest of my hw or my native res. 

University of Arizona will now offer degree credit for playing Age of Empires IV
https://www.neowin.net/news/university-of-arizona-will-now-offer-degree-credit-for-playing-age-of-empires-iv/
Most of us who play video games have often daydreamed about being offered college courses for our favorite games. That dream has now become a reality for the students at University of Arizona. Microsoft has formed a partnership with the institute that will allow students to earn credit towards their degree for playing Age of Empires IV.

Is AoE IV more accurate than the first 3 to begin with?. With how little content IV has, I'm surprised that this could even be a thing. 

The Thursday news, all in one post:

SALES /PLAYER COUNT & DEALS

The Epic Store has two new free games:

• City of Brass: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/city-of-brass
• Total War: WARHAMMER: https://store.epicgames.com/en-US/p/total-war-warhammer

And next week, the free games will be also two: Rogue Legacy and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter.

Steam has two new deals:

• One Hand Clapping will be 34% off until the 3rd of April: https://store.steampowered.com/app/893720/One_Hand_Clapping/
• TerraTech is free to try and 50% off until April 6: https://store.steampowered.com/app/285920/TerraTech/

Fanatical's new Star Deal is Creed: Rise to Glory, 85% off during the next 48 hours: https://www.fanatical.com/en/game/creed-rise-to-glory.

SOFTWARE & DRIVERS

NVIDIA showcases real-time path tracing on an RTX3090 at GTC 2022
https://www.dsogaming.com/videotrailer-news/nvidia-showcases-real-time-path-tracing-on-an-rtx3090-at-gtc-2022/
At GTC 2022, NVIDIA showcased real-time path tracing. The green team used a variety of demos that were running on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX3090 at 1080p. And Aaron Lefohn, Vice President of Graphics Research at NVIDIA, shared some short videos.

MODS, EMULATORS & FAN PROJECTS

This mod brings the “King of the Monsters” to Jurassic World Evolution 2
https://www.dsogaming.com/mods/this-mod-brings-the-king-of-the-monsters-to-jurassic-world-evolution-2/
Modder ‘saber the tyrant’ has released a pretty cool mod for Jurassic World Evolution 2. As the title implies, this mod brings Godzilla, the King of the Monsters, to this latest Jurassic World game.
As you may have guessed, this is a character swap mod. In short, the mod replaces the mosa with Godzilla. And… well… that’s it. The modder also suggests using the death valley skin with no pattern alongside this Godzilla mod.

Elden Ring Tekken 7 mod is too good, director asks players to 'plz stop'
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/elden-ring-tekken-mod-is-too-good-director-asks-players-to-plz-stop/
Katsuhiro Harada has asked people to "plz stop it" after an Elden Ring-themed Tekken 7 mod was too good. The director of the Tekken series took to Twitter to share his thoughts about a Tekken 7 mod which looks so good in the trailer that it feasibly could have been an official crossover. The mod is ridiculously impressive, so much so, Harada seems a little hesitant about people taking it a little too seriously.
As reported by VGC, Harada quote retweeted a trailer of a Tekken 7 mod made by Ultraboy showing off the character models included in the pack. The trailer, no word of a lie, looks official. If you showed this to me without any context I would think it had been leaked from an upcoming collaboration as both Tekken and Elden Ring are under the Bandai Namco flag. But no, it's just a dedicated fan doing an incredible job of recreating these characters in the fighting game.
>> The mod is linked in the article.

GAMING NEWS

Guild Wars 2 bug turns players into ridiculously long cats
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/guild-wars-2-bug-turns-players-into-ridiculously-long-cats/
Two years ago, Guild Wars 2 was infiltrated by giant cats. It was intentional, some cheeky April Fools Day shenanigans. But now, something even more cursed has arrived in the game, something I'm pretty sure ArenaNet didn't intend to happen. The reign of the big cats is over, now long cats are the latest thing to be wreaking havoc in the MMO.
>> That reminds me that we'll have to pay extra caution tomorrow with the news.

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will mess with your mind in new ways this April
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/the-stanley-parable-ultra-deluxe-will-mess-with-your-mind-in-new-ways-this-april/
It's been nearly ten years since The Stanley Parable stuck a fork into our brains and twirled it around like a bowl of spaghetti. (...)
And now here comes Stanley again, only new and improved. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe will put you in Employee 427's shoes once again on April 27. Let the trailer above get you reacquainted with Stanley, a simple clerical worker who dutifully pushed buttons until one day he got out of his chair, left his office, and started pushing the limits of the strange world around him instead.

Like a blast from the past, Epic is facing a new Fortnite emote lawsuit
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/like-a-blast-from-the-past-epic-is-facing-a-new-fortnite-emote-lawsuit/
Like a blast from the distant past of 2018, Epic Games is being sued over a Fortnite emote. This time around it's the "It's Complicated" emote, which plaintiff Kyle Hanagami says is an unauthorized copy of the dance he choreographed for Charlie Puth's 2017 song How Long.

Become a sci-fi superhero fighting for corrupt corporate overlords in this new ARPG
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/become-a-sci-fi-superhero-fighting-for-corrupt-corporate-overlords-in-this-new-arpg/
Have you ever wanted to be a superhero battling valiantly for the future of humanity, but also beholden to omnipotent corporate overlords whose whims dictate your every decision? Superfuse, an upcoming hack-and-slash APRG from Stitch Heads and publisher Raw Fury, might be just what you're after.

Devolver 'fully supports' Loop Hero studio as it encourages piracy in sanctioned countries
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/loop-hero-studio-encourages-users-affected-by-sanctions-to-pirate-the-game/
The Russian independent studio—which does not support Russia's invasion of Ukraine—encouraged its followers to "help raise the pirate flag" in a March 27 post on its official VK account. It also shared a torrent link.
Update: A spokesperson for Loop Hero publisher Devolver Digital has issued a statement, confirming that it supports Four Quarters' invitation for users in areas affected by economic sanctions to pirate the game.

Game immediately review bombed on Steam after crypto company buys it
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/storybook-brawl-crypto-review-bomb/
Players of free-to-play autobattler Storybook Brawl are suddenly calling for it to be booted off Steam, but not because of a controversial balance change or a scandalous personal allegation. Storybook Brawl is the subject of a very 2022 happening: a cryptocurrency company bought it.

Dead Cells gets free Break the Bank DLC all about loot, loot, and more loot
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/dead-cells-gets-free-break-the-bank-dlc-all-about-loot-loot-and-more-loot/
Developers Motion Twin and Evil Empire have released a new free DLC for Dead Cells, called Break the Bank, which follows on from January's substantial The Queen and the Sea update. Dead Cells is fundamentally the same game as it was at release—and it was great at release—but the post-launch support that this action-heavy roguelike has received is really something.

Crush Chaos in Warhammer 40,000: Darktide this September
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/crush-chaos-in-warhammer-40000-darktide-in-september/
I still fire up Vermintide 2 on occasion when the desire to smash some big rats takes over, but as a 40K boy I am eager to leave the fantasy realm behind and stomp around a grimdark hive city in its follow-up, Darktide. Luckily, its arrival is not too far off.

Vampire Survivors didn't rip-off Castlevania sprites after all
https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/vampire-survivors-didnt-rip-off-castlevania-sprites-after-all/
PC Gamer recently spoke to Luca Galante, the sole developer behind indie hit Vampire Survivors. During the conversation I asked about a brief early controversy, which flared-up and then died-down almost as quickly: some people accused the game of going too far in its homage to Castlevania, and even that certain sprites were a straight rip-off.

WTF? Do you have to download the full game again or what? It's ridiculous!

lol.

I could, with quite an effort, see this with Civilization because of its unique units and buildings, but with an Age of Empires game...

Intel Arc supports HDMI 2.0b and not HDMI 2.1

(11:35) Imagine releasing a GPU so late in the game without HDMI 2.1! What the hell?

The 3090 Ti Heat Problem: Supersized Cooler Tear-Down of EVGA FTW3

Now the cooler itself is excellent at dissipating heat but the fact that you need big chungus over here is insane. Also the inclusion of the E-lease is ridiculous but it certainly may need it or a anti-sag bracket.

Intel ARC A350M laptop GPU demonstrates GeForce GTX 1650 series performance in the first 3DMark tests

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-arc-a350m-laptop-gpu-demonstrates-geforce-gtx-1650-series-performance-in-the-first-3dmark-tests

This is supposed to be their 3050 competitor... But it performs like a 1650???

Intel flagship Arc GPU features 21.7 billion transistors, more than Navi 22 and GA104

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-flagship-arc-gpu-features-21-7-billion-transistors-more-than-navi-22-and-ga104

I have a feeling it's going to be late, slow and disappointing but we will see.

Few more things

This is the one thing I like about Valve is that they are fixing the issues that I (as well as others) reported to support. You may think that's obvious but you would be surprised how many companies including console manufacturers don't do that. Once they get a lot of these issues fixed and if they revise the fan, I will probably rebuy it.

Death Stranding Director's Cut: PC vs PS5 Graphics Breakdown

Basically shows the PS5 is somewhere between a 2080 and 2080 Super in this game. The main caveat according to Alex is because Death Stranding is heavily GPU bound, most likely the PS5's GPU is reaching full clocks. But in the future as games become more demanding on CPU, this could change. Also PS5 loads the game nearly twice as fast as on PC from cold boot but this game doesn't use DirectStorage on PC which also shows why PC needs it.

Imo it does goes to show the duality of RDNA 2. Excellent in Raster but terrible in Ray Tracing. So far, my prediction that you need a 3060 Ti as a minimum to outshine the consoles in every area holds up. We will see how it goes though.

FH5 got my update yesterday. Didn't check how big it was.

But yeah, my background downloads were unusually high yesterday, 590 GB in total.

Oh, very nice.

Sold my Honda yesterday for 20 M credits and I'll get a new one for 80 series points:

105gb feels like it just downloaded the whole game again